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Brian W. Aldiss (Cyclopedia of World Authors)

Although most readers will recognize the British writer Brian Wilson Aldiss as the creator of popular science fiction, his list of work encompasses many more interests. His chief concern is with the exploration of human nature, either as he observes it around him or as he extrapolates what it would or should be in an imagined fictive place and time. In addition, he has produced volumes of travel literature, short stories, autobiography, and art and literary criticism. No matter the form or genre, Aldiss is intent on examining what makes people tick.

Aldiss was born in 1925 to...

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